US Shooting on News channels

Maryam Moshiri (London) and Michelle Fleury (NY) along with Gary O'Donoghue and Rapini Vaidyanathan (DC) on BBC World. Julian Worricker on the NC.

CNN Intl joined CNN USA with Brooke Baldwin.

George Stephanopoulos with ABC News special

And this is news how?

From a presentation point of view really not liking the "pushbacks" on BBC News - they're adding absolutely nothing to the coverage.

To be clear, Rajini is in Washington, Michelle Fleury is in NYC and Maryam is in London.

Maryam is now with Ros Atkins on the Outside Source set, which is being broadcast on BBC World only.

I think it's by virtue of it being a thing that is happening.

Wow....

From the coverage Ive been watching the Major news channels usually dont have or are the slowest to get the best information. The local stations have always been the best sources. For a variety of reason, one of the main reasons is the networks dont know the area or the have local sources for information. Local stations have larger local resource pool to draw from. Also a news channel typically early on, will use a single network correspondent on a scene thats much too large for one person to cover and accurately gather new information. The local station can marshall their entire reporting team to fan out and cover multiple beats and reach out to multiple sources (ie hospitals, police stations, city hall, government buildings). If you have a Roku/AppleTV/Chromecast you can get NEWSON channel and pull up KABC. On Faux News Channel, Shepherd Smith just ripped the local police officials a "new one" over the lack of information after 2 hours since this incident has occurred. Usual tabloid guff. Not really a Faux News fan anyway. [changes channel]. The BBC News...kinda blah coverage,bumbling, repetitive. Usual filler topic points covered whilst an incident is still occurring..."thank you very much indeed" . AJAM and NBC News and CBS News providing the best coverage IMO. Smooth calm and measured informative. Shephard Smith still whinging about the media being iced out. Scott Pelly is smooth and calming and not bumbling whilst proving relevant information. Likely coverage on CBSN if you care to watch.

Here's a few screen grabs from NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo:

I read that as frustration over how normal this has become now in America.

KABC.

If that didn't have an abc7 logo, I would never have guessed that graphics set was from a US O&O.

Few more screen grabs:

Euronews:


CCTV News has a reporter in San Bernardino:


RT showing a little live image of California down in the corner

Well its not actually that surprising anymore. KABC recently relaunched their graphics to this new version. Having said that, KABC has had a flat graphics package for a number of years now. I believe KGO in SF uses a flat package as well. This set is actually quite nice. Many stations across the country have gone flat and simple graphics for a number of years now. So the stereotypical use of flashy extruded graphics throughout dont really apply across the board anymore. There is far too much variety in news presentation in the US and Canada.
Check these out from NewscastStudio.com
http://www.newscaststudio.com/graphics/kabc2/
http://www.newscaststudio.com/graphics/wink2/
Extruded Opens, flat lower thirds.
Gannett (Tegna Group)Package. They really embraced the flat look and rolled it out to all their stations across the country. Following the color coding the USAToday newspaper they own(ed)
http://www.newscaststudio.com/graphics/wtsp2/
Others
http://www.newscaststudio.com/graphics/wbtv/
http://www.newscaststudio.com/graphics/wthr/

The BBC NC cant decide what to call the city where this is happening. The lowerthird says SAN BERNADINO and the LIVE flag says SAN BERNARDINO. And presenter is mispronouncing it. Its pronounced San Berna-deeno and spelled San Bernardino.

{giggle} She just quickly corrected herself when she said "LOS ANGEL-EEEZ" to the correct pronunciation "LOS ANGEL-IIS"